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novel
1[nov-uhl]
noun
a fictitious prose narrative of considerable length and complexity, portraying characters and usually presenting a sequential organization of action and scenes.
(formerly) novella.
novel
2[nov-uhl]
adjective
of a new and unusual kind; different from anything seen or known before.
a novel idea.
not previously detected or reported.
the emergence of novel strains of the virus.
novel
3[nov-uhl]
noun
Roman Law.
an imperial enactment subsequent and supplementary to an imperial compilation and codification of authoritative legal materials.
Usually Novels imperial enactments subsequent to the promulgation of Justinian's Code and supplementary to it: one of the four divisions of the Corpus Juris Civilis.
Civil Law.an amendment to a statute.
novel
1/ ˈɒə /
noun
an extended work in prose, either fictitious or partly so, dealing with character, action, thought, etc, esp in the form of a story
the literary genre represented by novels
obsolete(usually plural) a short story or novella, as one of those in the Decameron of Boccaccio
novel
2/ ˈɒə /
adjective
of a kind not seen before; fresh; new; original
a novel suggestion
novel
3/ ˈɒə /
noun
Roman law a new decree or an amendment to an existing statute See also Novels
novel
A long, fictional narration in prose. Great Expectations and Huckleberry Finn are novels, as are War and Peace and Lord of the Flies.
Other 51Թ Forms
- novellike adjective
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of novel1
Origin of novel2
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
It is in fact one of the most insightful novels about our present techno-anxious moment, camouflaged as a children’s book.
According to the Sunday Times, Forsyth's third novel, The Dogs of War, drew on his experience of organising a coup in Africa.
Best-selling author Frederick Forsyth, known for thriller novels including The Day Of The Jackal, has died at the age of 86, his agent has said.
"The whole prosecution in this case is like a script from a movie, indeed a fictional novel," he told jurors.
Snook won best leading actress in a play, for performing all 26 roles in a one-woman stage adaptation of Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray.
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When To Use
A novel is a long work of fiction written in prose that tells a narrative involving characters and usually involving an organized set of actions occurring in a setting.Let’s break that down. Fiction is a type of writing (literature) that involves characters that don’t exist or people (usually famous) who have been reimagined (fictionalized). The events in fiction are made up, or, in the case of historic events, were fictionalized.Prose is the ordinary manner of writing that we use, that is, using complete sentences and not poetic verses. A narrative is a telling of events or experiences. Stories and essays are narratives.A setting is a story’s location and time. Some novels take place in our own time and place, while others take place in the past, in another country, in the future, and even in space or on other planets (real or made-up).Length is usually the key difference between works of fiction. While there are no official rules, a novel is generally at least 50,000 words, and many novels are much longer than this. By contrast, a short story is often 1,000 to 10,000 words, although flash fiction can be as short as 500 words. A novella (a short novel) is somewhere in between a short story and a novel.
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